BOWIE, Md. — Red reflectors line the long paved pathway at the end of Park Drive and lead to the two-story house set upon a wooded six-acre plot. Inside, Fred Brown, the 50-year-old former Georgetown guard, emerges through a white door marked “PRIVATE.” His hands are full, heavy with four framed photographs, two paintings and […]

Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Parents and teachers have a lot to say about the city Department of Education’s turnaround method for schools. That was the case at St. Aloysius Church in Ridgewood, where students joined parents and teachers to voice their dissatisfaction with the DOE’s […]

Zombies in movie theaters, zombies on television — a whole lot of us have brains on the brain. And so, in a substantially different way, does Jonah Lehrer. He’s put himself at the crossroads of neuroscience and the humanities with books like his first, “Proust Was a Neuroscientist,” and other volumes delving into the neuro-mysteries […]

When Janice Ruize Guo got her first look at the Hoowa Supermarket that her new student friends had been telling her about, she was disappointed. Even with aisles, shelves and coolers devoted to spiky pink dragon fruit, long cream-colored lotus roots, dumplings, dried mushrooms, noodles, sauces, tea, sweet crackers sprinkled with seaweed and shrimp-flavored chips, […]

On paper, the second annual Mayor’s Cup was a mismatch. On one side, the Brooklyn/Manhattan/Staten Island team was an all-star team, led by trash-talking foes Leroy (Truck) Fludd of three-time defending city champion Boys Girls and high-scoring wing Thaddeus Hall of Thomas Jefferson. The other, featuring players from Bronx and Queens, was littered with ‘A’ […]